01622cam a2200313 i 4500 296099848 TxAuBib 20151022120000.0 150709s2015||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u bl2015027675 9780062391193 0062391194 NjBwBT eng rda NjBwBT TxAuBib rda Hall, Louisa, 1982- Speak [BOOK] : a novel / Louisa Hall. First edition. New York, NY : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2015] 316 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier A young Puritan woman travels to the New World with her unwanted new husband. Alan Turing, the renowned mathematician and code breaker, writes letters to his best friend's mother. A Jewish refugee and professor of computer science struggles to reconnect with his increasingly detached wife. An isolated and traumatized young girl exchanges messages with an intelligent software program. A former Silicon Valley Wunderkind is imprisoned for creating illegal lifelike dolls. Each of these characters is attempting to communicate across gaps -- to estranged spouses, lost friends, future readers, or a computer program that may or may not understand them. 840L Lexile. 20151022. Communication Fiction. Comprehension Fiction. Interpersonal relations Fiction. Artificial intelligence Fiction.